LACONIA — The defense rested their case in the second trial of Hassan Sapry on Thursday morning, following the testimony of a psychological expert who told jurors the defendant's insanity defense is legitimate.

Sapry, 27, is charged with eight counts, including first- and second-degree murder. On Tuesday, Belknap Superior Court Judge Elizabeth Leonard dismissed one charge of falsifying physical evidence related to a cellphone owned by the victim, Wilfred Guzman Sr., which Sapry apparently threw into Lake Winnisquam in April 2019, days after the murder.

State prosecutors Jeffery Strelzin and Alexander Kellermann allege Sapry killed Guzman Sr., 58, a friend, in a frenzy in the early hours of April 18, 2019, in Guzman Sr.'s Blueberry Lane apartment, after the two engaged in an argument abou

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